ISO 4037-1:2019(E)

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This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 85, Nuclear enerqy, nuclear technologies
and radiological protection, Subcommittee SC 2, Radiological protection.

This second edition cancel s and replaces the first edition (ISO 4037-1:1996), which has been technically
revised. The main changes are:

introduction of two types of reference fields, matched reference fields and characterized
reference fields;

introduction ofvalidation for matched reference fields;

introduction of limits for the allowed deviation of parameters like high voltage, filter purity and
filter thickness from their nominal values. These limits now depend on the definition depth of the
phantom related quantity. This is done to achieve an overall uncertainty (k = 2) of about 6 % to 10 %
for the phantom related operational quantities.
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